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I have an XML-document with paragraphs and list items that have no
wrapper element around each list.
Something like this:
<par>my first para</par>
<par>second para</par>
<li>first list item of first list</li>
<li>second list item of first list</li>
<li>third list item of first list</li>
<par>third para</par>
<li>first list item of second list</li>
<par>fourth para</par>
<li>first list item of third list</li>
<li>second list item of third list</li>
In my transformation I would like to add these implicit wrapper
element around each of the list to get something like
<p>my first para</p>
<p>second para</p>
<ul>
<li>first list item of first list</li>
<li>second list item of first list</li>
<li>third list item of first list</li>
</ul>
<p>third para</p>
<ul>
<li>first list item of second list</li>
</ul>
<p>fourth para</p>
<ul>
<li>first list item of third list</li>
<li>second list item of third list</li>
</ul>
My attempt to solve this with
<xsl:template match="Aufzaehlungspunkt">
<xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::li)">
<ul>
</xsl:if>
<li><xsl:apply-templates/></li>
<xsl:if test="not(following-sibling::li)">
</ul>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
ran into two separate problems:
1. I'm not allowed to use <ul> without the matching </ul> (even though
that is in a separate if-branch below.
2. The preceding-sibling and following-sibling-axes are only true when
dealing with the very first and the very last <li> in the document.
So rather than meaning 'previous element is not <li>' the meaning
'there is no more previous <li>-element in this document'.
Any ideas how to solve these problems with XML?
Oh, btw. I saw the solution suggested some years ago
<officers>
<xsl:for-each select='/doc/person[@er="officer"]'>
<person><xsl:value-of select='.'/></person>
</xsl:for-each>
</officers>
<xsl:for-each select='/doc/person[not(@er="officer")]'>
<person><xsl:value-of select='.'/></person>
</xsl:for-each>
</perslist>
</xsl:template>
but this doesn't seem to be an option since I'm not using the
procedural style of processing my document.
Thanks for any input,
--
Ferdinand
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Ferdinand Soethe
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